writer – speaker – advocate

  • Home
  • About Melinda
  • SHOP
  • Testimonials
  • Bookings
  • Contact

Melinda Tankard Reist


Child sexual abuse thrives in a culture that eroticises it

Fairfax Add comments

The dark world of paedophilia exposed

smhcommentThe Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the recent sentencing of Daniel Morcombe’s killer along with the imprisonment last week of former television star Robert Hughes after being found guilty of nine sex offense against three underage girls, have all heightened public attention on the scourge of child sexual assault.

sadchild

There is deep distress in the community that defenceless children are used in such evil ways. But the broader culture that encourages the abuse of the children goes unaddressed. The same loathing that is directed toward child sexual abuse has not been extended to the mainstream promotion of paedophilic fantasies for profit.

Predators are emboldened and more networked through thriving internet child porn rings. But there are other drivers of the trade in children’s bodies. Products in local newsagencies, milk bars and retail outlets and online, normalise and eroticise child sexual assault.

Bookworld, Barnes & Noble and Amazon have been exposed for selling hundreds of rape and incest titles in categories emphasising terms like “taboo,” “forced,” and “reluctant.” Titles included Daddy takes my Virginity, Daddy forces himself on little teen, Daddy’s Sex Slave and I tempted Daddy.

On the same site as Bookworld’s Father and Daughter Erotica section, was Repair Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest and Childhood Abuse. There are currently 30 titles listed under ‘‘Daddy Fantasy’’.

Amazon was forced to withdraw The Paedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Childlover’s Code of Conduct, written by a paedophile. But other pro-paedophile titles continue to be promoted.

Novels with incest themes typically eroticise sex between an older male relative, a father or sometimes uncle, and a young, virginal daughter or niece. We know that the prevalence of abuse by men known to victims, such as family members, is particularly high. So why allow publications that normalise it? Read more

As published in the Sydney Morning Herald 14 April 2014

Share

April 14th, 2014  
Tags: child abuse, child sexual abuse, Daniel Morcombe, P*rnography, paedophilia, Robert Hughes, Royal Commission into child abuse, Sexualisation, Sydney Morning Herald

One Response to “Child sexual abuse thrives in a culture that eroticises it”

  1. Hecuba
    April 16th, 2014 at 9:57 pm

    Paedophilia is a clever euphemism men created in order to make the false claim ‘it isn’t normal respectable men sexually preying on female and/or male children’ but rather those ‘others’ called paedophiles. Paedophiles are of course easily recognised because they are not respectable white males who are also fathers/husbands/brothers/uncles male neighbours etc. Paedophiles are non-white; working class; unemployed; loners – which neatly erases male sexual predators their common denominator which is they are all males.

    Paedophilia means ‘sexually attracted to female/male children’ and given most males who sexually prey on female and/or male children also engage in adult sexual behaviour, this means the term is not correct. Many male sexual predators sexually prey on adult women and also female children.

    Men and their Male Supremacist System continue to maintain the fiction of ‘fragmentation’ wherein the issue of males continuing to sexually prey on female and to a much lesser extent male children is supposedly totally divorced from mens’ malestream pornography industry. Males who consume pornography claim what they are reading is ‘fantasy’ and has no impact on their view of adult women and female children.

    But as we know advertising is a very profitable business because it makes potential customers want some of the products which are being constantly advertised. So too, with mens’ pornography industry – the male pornographers know constantly producing films showing adult males subjecting adult women who are posing as ‘female children’ does promote mens’ lies that female children are ‘sexually available to them.’ Likewise female children are constantly portrayed by malestream media as ‘adult women in female children’s bodies.’ This is how malestream media colludes with mens’ pornography industry and not forgetting the innumerable published books all promoting male pseudo sex right to sexually prey on adult women and girls with impunity.

    Note too all those male made pornography focus on depicting adult women as infantilised female children. There are few mens’ pornography which features adult men posing as infantilised male children. So the issue is not about male sexual exploitation of children but pandemic male sexual exploitation/male sexual violence against female children and adult women.

    ‘Joining the dots’ and accepting that mens’ pornography industry normalises and reinforces male pseudo sex right to females of any age is not what male dominated Governments and male dominated State Institutions wish to accept because it puts the focus on men and their accountability.

    Instead male dominated governments and institutions continue to claim ‘we must protect the children’ (which conveniently ignores the fact it is female children who are the ones being sexually preyed on by ‘respectable males’) and ignore the fact men’s pornography does not discriminate between female children and adult women because all females are apparently males’ dehumanised sexual service stations! The phrase ‘we must protect the children’ is meaningless because powerful white men continue to be afforded protection by the old boys’ network’ when these powerful male sexual predators are discovered to have/are sexually preying on female children and/or adult women.

    Powerful men whether they are media celebrities; male Catholic priests; male medical practitioners; male teachers etc. etc. are all perceived by Male Supremacist System and men in positions of political/legal power as ‘isolated incidents.’ The ones getting away with sexually preying on women and girls with impunity are the ‘respectable men’ because only ‘male others’ are seen as paedophiles which in itself serves to maintain fiction ‘respectable males do not commit sexual violence/sexual exploitation against women and female children.

    So it continues – men and their Male Supremacist Institutions hide/deny the reality of pandemic male sexual violence against women and girls because to do so would mean the beginning of the end of mens’ Male Supremacist System which was created to afford males their male pseudo sex right to females of all ages.

    Below is link to a talk on why the term ‘paedophile’ neatly absolves men of any accountability in respect of sexually preying on female children.

    http://www.troubleandstrife.org/articles/issue-33/weasel-words-paedophiles-and-the-cycle-of-abuse/


    Testimonials

    • “…the best speaker we have ever had”

      Antoinette Jones – Principal – Mitcham Girls High School
    • “Intelligent, passionate, brilliant, fearless… I could not recommend her more highly”

      Dr Michael Carr-Gregg
    • “You continue to reset my shock meter…”

      Steve Biddulph
    • “As a teacher and parent I recommend all parents, in fact all people, to attend a talk by Melinda- it will open your eyes and awaken your subconscious.”

      Heather Douglas – Parent – Pembroke School
    • “Melinda’s presentations to our parents, staff and full day workshops to students was inspirational, transforming the attitudes and thinking of all involved”

      Paul Teys – Principal – Hunter Valley Grammar
    • “Melinda Tankard Reist’s presentation to Middle and Upper School students at Pymble Ladies’ College was absolutely brilliant!”

      Justine Hodgson – English Faculty, Pymble Ladies’ College
    • “Melinda Tankard Reist has had a transformational affect on our school.”

      Ms Stephanie McConnell, Principal – Turramurra High School

    Shop

    • Purchase How to Talk to Your Kids about P*rnography and Good Pictures Bad Pictures for the special price of $30! (individual price $20 ea.)

    • This book throws down a challenge to Big Fertility and its minions: women are not ovens or suitcases, babies are not products. Love is not to be bought.

    • “Melinda Tankard Reist is at the forefront of helping…educate the public on the link between pornography and violence…” – Di Macleod, Director, Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence

    • “As you read, be prepared to feel both grief and rage.” Robert Jensen
      “These accounts are among the most unsettling you will ever read.” Steve Biddulph

    • “This powerful and humane book is a breakthrough…Big Porn Inc shows us we are poisoning our own spirits.” – Steve Biddulph
      “A landmark publication” – Clive Hamilton

    • ‘The foremost authority in Australia cyber safety lays it on the line and challenges parents to find their digital spine.’ – Dr Michael Carr-Gregg

    • Whether it is problems with friends, worrying about how you look or just feeling a bit down in the dumps – these books are written especially for you – to help you in your journey. Purchase all four together and save $18.50 on postage! Author: Sharon Witt

    • Men of Honour -written by Glen Gerreyn- encourages and inspires young men to take up the challenge to be honourable. Whether at school, in sport, at work or in relationships, we must develp our character to achieve success and experience the thrills life has on offer.

    • “Getting Real contains a treasure trove of information and should be mandatory reading for all workers with young people in health, education and welfare” – Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, Adolescent Psychologist

    • Defiant Birth challenges widespread medical, and often social aversion to less than perfect pregnancies or genetically different babies. It also features women with disabilities who were discouraged from becoming pregnant at all.

    Recent posts

    • Building good young men: a transformative message for your boys: new vid
    • “My daughter saw porn at 8. This is how her life unravelled”
    • Sexing-up breast cancer: Honey Birdette’s pinkwashing
    • Objecting to the sexualisation of girls is not the same as objecting to sexuality: a response to false claims
    • MTR discusses harms of porn culture with former deputy PM John Anderson
    • Tired of pinkwashing: It’s time to put CSR claims into action on porn-themed ads in shopping malls

    Upcoming Events

    No events

    Collective Shout: for a world free of sexploitation

    Archived Posts & Articles

Copyright © 2019 Melinda Tankard Reist MTR PTY LTD All Rights Reserved